The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-16

exclude sound better than ordinary brick work,
while being light and good non-conductor of
heat
A CONCERT HALL pianist in Baberton, Cape
Colony, recently, on a wager, played the piano
for twenty-for consecutive hours without
breaking harmony. During that time he
drank little beef tea and smoked an occasional
cigar. He finished in good shape, with lots of
playing power TO spare.
THE Empress of Germany gives golden cross
to every servant in the empire who has re
manned over forty years in her present position
and whose character is good More than 1900
have already received the cross, of whom a
large number have remained over fifty years in
one place. How many servants in this country
would get a cross under these conditionsy
A DANDY from Leadville," as he announced
himself, went into Buffalo On. " restaurant
and, pistol in hand, directed everybody to sit
down After he had enjoyed himself in this
way for while he went out followed by the
proprietor who was also "a dandy" it seems,
for he gave the cyclOniC Leadville visitor fear
full humping and had him committed to Jail.
Mrs. Ruth SMITH, of Bridgeport, Conn,
dresses in blue silk, wears blue spectacles, has
her meals served on blue glass dishes and lives
in a blue glass room which she has not left for
more than 10 minutes at a time for eight years.
4 saucy exchange remarks that as soon as she
gets thoroughly seasoned, so that she can wear
blue stockings, she is going to move TO Boston.
A CLAIM for damages having been brought by
relatives against a company of lynchers for
having hanged murderer, in Aurora Ind, their
attorney has brought forward the plea that
Watkins whole natural life was forfeited and
due to the State of Indiana, and no other person
under heaven than the State had any legal es
tate, right or title in or to the same, and the
SAME was no pecuniary value in law to his wife
or children"
Two German tobacco buyers of New York
went a Connecticut farmer and Ivaptad IN
buy his tobacco. He asked price which they
said was too great, and then they talked with
each other in German, agreeing to take it at the
price asked if they found that they could not
beat the farmer down. His son, good German
scholar heard all this, and let his father know;
and the old man thereupOn calmly held out for
half an hour, until the buyers came to his
terms.
A HARROW SHAPED flock of wild geese, the
Waterbury Comm american says went north
ward over the city recently. They seemed to
attend sharply to the business of travelling until
they Sped one of the numerous kites the BOYS
IN the northern part of the city were flying.
This kite was uncOmmonly high in the air and
the geese objected to it. At least they circled
about ii two or three times, and then four of
their number, seemingly delegated for the pur-
pose, attacked the kite and tore it into Shreds
and went on their way.
WHEN w. G. Browning, of East Greenwich r,
l., went to feed bis COW one morning she was
not in her accustomed stall. He had found the
barn door locked, and was at a loss to know
what had become of her. After an unsuccessful
search about the premises he went up to the
hay loft for hay for his horse. and there stood
the COW quietly filling up at the NOW. She had
broken loose in the night and climbed fourteen
steps to the loft. II took carpenter and an in
cllned plane to get her down
THERE is passage in Count Beust's memoirs
which will interest Americans. Referring to his
after-dinner speeches he says: 81 was not"
says Count Beust " quite novice for the SWIM
pathetic envoy of the United States, Mr. Jaw.
gave two banquetS annually at his house In
Vienna, one on the anniversary of the Decara-
ton of Independence and the other on Wash
lngtOnS birthday, at which the Chancellor of
the empire had TO be present to reply. Mr..
Jay has trained you, said Lady Bloomfield wife
of the English Ambassador at Vienna, to me in
London"
BUILDINGS for nine different colleges are now
going up in Wichita, Kan. Apropos of which
the Eagle of that town emitted the following
scream the other day: Now what has Topeka
and Lawrence got TO say, with their measly little
State university and female academy? Wichita
has got the business and has got the enterprise
and she is going to have the education-or bust
a tiue Let them antiquated villages in the
Kaw river bottoms hold their peace Wichita
with her nine colleges her sorghum sugar fac
tory Gid her seventy-sx wide open drug stores
is the metropolis of Kansas, and there isn't no
getting around it,
THE Russian government has announced its
intention of founding great convent between
Ezeroum and Bayazit II will resemble the
Russian Convent OF Mount Athos -Four Of the
most active Seminarists of the Convent of St
PantilimOn, at Mount Athos, have been in
Structed to proceed to Erzeroum to organize the
foundation of the hospital and SIlDerintend the
construction of the building which will com
mence in a few weeks. Several young Armeni-
ans, well acquainted with the Russian language
and familiar with the customs and usages of the
Armenians of Anatola, will be attached to the
convent as secretaries
THE representative of a cooperative life in
surance company called at a tenement house
in New York, during the obsequies of one of the
men recently killed among a dozen others who
fell from the elevated railroad side pedestrian
track used by the employees, and soon discov-
cred fierce supersttiOus sentiment in opposi-
ton to insurance. His particular victim had
been member but few months and his widow
was paid $500 but the visitor was assured on
all sides by the women mourners that if the de-
ceased hadn't been so foolish as to get insured
he might have been alive to-day The man
didn't undertake To argue but. believing the old
adage that discretion is the better part of valor
beat hasty retreat, followed by many impre-
cations.
RECENT INCIDENT in Paris has, curiouslv
enough, given the public a peep behind the
scenes Of the Greatest Show on Earth" One
ol DdIuuii great dJJtdCtlOnS used TO be
female snake charmer, who was advertised
under the name of Nala Dawaionti a native of
Hindustan. The bills stated that she had been
taught the art Of understanding by "a Hindu
dervish." 4 lawsuit in which she became en-
gagged in Paris compelled Nala Dawaionti to re-
veal though with much reluctance, that her
real name IL Emile Pompon. that she Is a native
of France and has never been in India and that
she learnt her art from her husband an acrobat
named Palmer, and not from a Hindu dervish-
which last piece Of information is somewhat
Superfluous, as no such thing as Hindu dervish
exists.
OF UNADULTERATED impudence and cold as
sumption the coachman Of the millioned upper
thousands in New York provide the most rearly
perfect specimens to be found In the United
States. They appear 10 think that common We
hices and people on foot have no rights In the
street. So they hallOO at pedestrians who are
about 10 get in the way. and rattle across streets
with Indifference as 10 who or what may be on
the crossing. Anna Dickinson is heroine IL
was al Fourteenth street aud Fifth avenue In a
recent rain storm The avenue was crowded
with vehicles and crossing WIS difficult Anna
had lodged In and out successfully, hut she
found when near the farther sidewalk that she
had 10 wait few seconds for a wagon load.
ed with long pieces Of lumber 10 pass
As she stood there carriage containing the /
wife and daughter Of a ten-mllliOnaire came
dashing up and some inartlcuiate whoops from
The driver warned her 10 yet out But she |
didn't She stood a. resOlltely as N she had !
been on the lecture platform, and Jehu had 30 |
klArkrn the pace OF his horses, though be- lft ]
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